: Paramount Pictures Corp. President Gail Berman has stepped down 18 months after joining the ailing studio with a mandate to turn it around. : Casino mogul Steve Wynn sued Lloyd's of London Thursday, saying the insurance company failed to act properly on his demands to pay $54 million in lost value for a Picasso that was damaged when Wynn accidentally poked a hole in the canvas with his elbow.
: Actors Edward James Olmos and Charles S. Dutton are among five nominees for a Directors Guild of America Award in the movies for television category. : Theme-park operator Six Flags Inc.
, which has been struggling with falling attendance and a large debt load, said Thursday it will sell seven of its parks for $312 million.
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Are you a pop idol? An R B singer? A dancer?
A gangsta? Seriously, it s time to choose. : The musical Dreamgirls and the TV comedy Everybody Hates Chris each collected a leading eight NAACP Image Award nominations Tuesday.
Dreamgirls star Beyonce Knowles led the individual nominees with five nods.
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: That ! in Legends!, which opens tomorrow at the Civic Theatre, is hardly hype.
: Museum crowds are strong at movie theaters. Ben Stiller's Night at the Museum took in $24 million to stay on top at the box office for a third-straight weekend, fending off a soft crop of newcomers during the post-holiday lull. : Van Halen made a jump into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday along with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, R.
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These days, it might very well give clues about how you feel about the war in Iraq, the environment, your political leanings. : Been There, Done That features common family issues and solutions contributed by readers and/or the advice of experts. NEW YORK, 12:20 p.
m. Jan. 6 (AP) : Comedian Chevy Chase depicted the late Gerald Ford as a bumbling and accident-prone president 30 years ago on Saturday Night Live, but he says the two shared a more serious link.
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and his wife just finished bickering about how much energy her hair-curling iron wastes. Now he s boiling water for soup on a sun-heated oven in the drought-tolerant backyard of their two-bedroom solar-powered home. : Don t say stinks, darling.
If absolutely necessary, smells. Highborn lady in The Philadelphia Story : THEATER: The holidays have been very good to Broadway, according to final figures released by the League of American Theatres and Producers. : Though he s the conductor and artistic director of the San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Jung-Ho Pak imagined himself in another position when he cooked up the idea of Poetic Pairs, a trio of concerts that couple music with poetry.
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And when they come out, so does the hand sanitizer.
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Unity within your own home is another matter entirely. : Pucker up, Christina Aguilera. Ryan Seacrest hopes to plant a New Year's kiss on you.
Aguilera will be performing on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2007, hosted by Clark and Seacrest from Times Square in New York on Sunday night. : Mike Tyson was arrested early Friday on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of cocaine after police stopped him shortly after he left a Scottsdale nightclub, police said. : Julia Roberts is expecting her third child with her husband, cinematographer Danny Moder, her spokeswoman confirmed to People magazine Friday.
: More than 750,000 people will jam New York's Times Square Sunday to watch the traditional New Year's Eve descent of a glittering ball to welcome 2007. : James Brown didn't move. He didn't sing.
But even in death, the soul legend made thousands of people who streamed past him at the Apollo Theater feel good just to be near him. : When Ronald Simmons first heard James Brown's hit Cold Sweat, he was blown away, especially by Brown's command, Give the drummer some! m. Dec. 28 (AP)
The couple married Wednesday before 60 guests at the Grande Colonial Hotel in the La Jolla area of San Diego, Taylor's manager, Lou Taylor, told Us Weekly magazine in a story posted on its Web site Thursday night.
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: At first glance, the Belly Up Tavern s new music series Artists on the Edge evokes an obvious question: Is this just a marketing ploy or is it a music series with substance? NEW YORK, 2:23 p.m.
Dec. 28 (AP) : The bitter battle of words between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell isn't over. Rosie's a loser.
She's been a loser always, the real estate mogul and host of NBC's The Apprentice, said Thursday in a phone interview with The Associated Press. : Director Spike Lee has signed on to shoot a movie about James Brown, the late Godfather of Soul, Daily Variety reported Wednesday. CONCORD, N.
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Dec. 26 (AP) : Adam Sandler, a New Hampshire native, helped brighten Christmas for a sister and brother who are struggling with cancer. LOS ANGELES, 12:38 p.
m. Dec. 24 (AP) : Dame Judi Dench may have won an Oscar, but she still worries about getting work.
The 72-year-old film and stage actress says she takes on so many roles partly out of fear her latest one could be her last. NEW YORK, 4:47 p.m.
Dec. 24 (AP) : Actress Marilu Henner, best known for her role in the hit TV series Taxi, has married a former college classmate who proposed from his hospital bed after surgery for cancer. WASHINGTON, 4:49 p.
m. Dec. 24 (AP) : Joni Mitchell's 1971 song River has been recorded by more than 100 other musicians and appeared on more than two dozen Christmas albums but it's far from a typical, cheerful holiday tune.
: Relationships. Families. Jobs.
Sometimes, they re wonderful. Sometimes, they can be a source of conflict, struggle and worry. : Irish rocker and humanitarian Bono will become a knight of the British empire but the U2 frontman won't be called Sir.
: There was an unusual occurrence last month at a strategic, studio-arranged, San Diego word-of-mouth screening of the scintillating musical Dreamgirls at the Pacific Gaslamp downtown. WASHINGTON, 3:04 p.m.
Dec. 22 (AP) : Santa has lots going against him school-yard rumors, older brothers who think they know the deal and tattle to the young ones, errant price tags, the tell-all Internet and so many Made in China labels it seems the North Pole has outsourced to Asia. : The San Diego Public Library and KPBS are sponsoring One Book, One San Diego, an initiative to get everyone who lives or works in the San Diego area to read and discuss the same book in 2007.
: When Mexico's scandalous pop diva Gloria Trevi once the country's highest-paid performer and known as Mexico's Madonna left jail, she handed out fliers to promote herself. : Kiefer Sutherland is an Emmy award winner for his role as agent Jack Bauer on 24, but he also holds another prestigious title: rodeo champion. , 4:46 p.m. Dec. 21 (AP) Dec. 21 (AP) m. Dec. 21 (AP)
Miss Nevada USA was stripped of her title Thursday after racy photos of her appeared on the Internet, pageant officials said. Some of the photos show Katie Rees, 22, kissing other young women, exposing one of her breasts and pulling down her pants to show her thong underwear at a party in Tampa, Fla.
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But is it the type of viewing that series creator Barbara Walters was bargaining for?
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No brilliant poinsettias or festive branches of holly. No smiling faces or hearty wishes of happiness. : The Doors, the Grateful Dead and Joan Baez are among the recording artists who will receive lifetime achievement Grammy Awards next year.
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19 (AP) : A businessman paid $280,000 for an original 1860 handwritten copy of the classic poem that begins 'Twas the night before Christmas and read it to friends at a party, an auction gallery said Tuesday. : I ve always loved the room at Jsix. I find myself gazing at the pearlized blossoms in relief on the ceiling over the open kitchen, admiring the subtle beryl-glass tile and smiling at the pattern the sun makes as it streams through the Frank Lloyd Wright-esque windows into the circular lounge.
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m. Dec. 19 (AP) : Miss USA Tara Conner, who had come under criticism amid rumors she had been frequenting bars while underage, will be allowed to keep her title, Donald Trump announced Tuesday.
: Rocky Balboa is about nostalgia. What else could a Rocky movie be in 2006? Star Sylvester Stallone is now 60.
He tends to look it, though with good hair and a big rack of upper-body muscles.
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and Australian soap stars have found a strange and challenging outlet for their talents performing pantomime to British children who hiss and boo them.
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: Dear Santa: No doubt you and the Mrs. (more on her later) like the rest of us are stressed and stretched to the max in the run-up to Christmas. You really must add one more goodie on your sleigh: a theater.
Not a toy theater, but an honest-to-goodness theater space with all the fixings.
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: DEAR MISS MANNERS: From the row in back of me on a flight I took yesterday, I overheard a man say, to the two young women sitting there, Hi! My name s Frank, what are your names? After a noticeable pause, the two women answered with their first names.
: Is Jessica Simpson the Queen of Swag or as her flack insists Our Lady of Largess?
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